Lack of freedom of speech

At first, they pretended to cover up Russian YouTube channels and social media accounts to counteract "Russia's influence on the elections."

But we have known for a long time that there was no interference, and just last week there was evidence of this again in America itself.

Anyway, so much time has passed since 2016 - and the picture has become much more transparent.

Because the pressure of social networks, and in particular YouTube, on independent opinion from Russia is only increasing.

The masks have long been dropped, there is no talk of any interference.

Now there is a completely impudent, unpunished interference in information processes on the territory of Russia itself by uncontrolled and unaccountable organizations that are clearly hostile to the Russian Federation and its population.

One of the latest examples: a film by Alexander Rogatkin about the events in Beslan was posted on YouTube.

To begin with, it is an absolutely internal affair of Russia and the Russian audience.

It is called “Beslan”.   

In a few days, the film scored almost 130 thousand views and immediately received a "yellow card" from YouTube: "The following content is defined by the YouTube community as unacceptable or offensive to a part of the audience."

No, this is not a blockage yet, but a move that significantly reduces the availability of the film for the viewer.

Maybe they showed something so naturalistic that it could distort especially nervous substances?

Yes, it seems nothing like that - except that it's all a priori scary.

And nothing that, for example, would not be in the widely advertised Dudya's film.  

By the way, of course there was.

We finally saw a different position on Beslan, apart from the one that people have so far poured into our ears, passionately whitewashing terrorists and denigrating those who were on the front line of the battle with them.

Including a new growth of trash - the same Dudya.

It did not start today - we worked with public opinion from the very beginning.

Echo Moskvy and Novaya Gazeta did their best - they then flourished under the streams of blood.

Whether this was another attempt to tie Putin's hands, I don't know.

But it still looks as vile as possible.

And if 15 years ago such a position was somehow justified by supposedly worrying about the fate of the country, for the people, then since then so many abominations have been done and so much contempt for this very people has been expressed that everything has long been clear.

But this is again an internal affair of the audience and the people in general. 

Sooner or later people will decide for themselves what to do with the policemen.

But here is a completely American, completely one-party office called YouTube - where does it go?

Why didn't Dudya's film receive any cards, no restrictions, but Rogatkin's film did?

Because Rogatkin sets out a "wrong" position, from the point of view of propagandists.

This happens regularly: as soon as the authors of any politicized content hold a neutral or pro-Russian position, there will be trouble.

Blocks, warnings, complaints, strikes, viewing restrictions, demonetization, writing off likes and subscribers - everything goes into action.

At the same time, at any level of rudeness and offensiveness, the opposite position will always be supported by the platform.

And the platform does not provide any explanations. 

Because a white man is not obliged to talk here with any natives.

The digital native has to eat what is given to him, get his share of advertising and shut up.

Because he's just a big chunk of a new oil field.

“People are new oil,” you were told.

And if our, if I may say so, "partners" are kept away from the real oil fields of Russia, then there is an endless open field for pumping out money.

Nothing personal just business.

Another thing is who and how allows such platforms as Facebook, YouTube, Google, Twitter, to create all this unrestrictedly. 

Remember, there were attempts to force the servers of these companies, which serve the Russian segment of the market, to be transferred to the territory of the country?

Has anyone transferred it?

Where are the offices of these companies in the Russian Federation, where would at least someone sit who can answer for the lawlessness that they are arranging here?

There are few fans of Sultan Erdogan, but, by the way, the Turks quite dryly and technically dealt with the functioning of these platforms.

Haven't transferred your local broadcasting infrastructure to the country?

After 30 days - warning blocking throughout the territory.

But the Russian Federation is not Turkey at all.

And no matter how much the propagandists tell us about the "insignificance of the Russian audience from the point of view of world business," in fact, these are tens of millions of people.

And not sickly advertising budgets.

But even if they are insignificant, then, in general, you will not lose anything from this blocking.

Or YouTube can't sleep, as it worries about freedom of speech in Russia?

Yes, so that everyone has their own channel for receiving information and so that everyone can express themselves.

Yeah.

We already see what they mean by "freedom of speech."

Thank.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.